In China, Beijing is the most important jurisdiction for hearing cases on patent disputes. On average, the people’s courts located in Beijing receive around 300 civil patent cases per year.

On August 30, 2013, China National People’s Congress enacted the amended Chinese Trademark Law, which shall come into effect as of May 1, 2014.

On August 13, 2013,, the National Development and Reform Commission of China and Ministry of Finance of China announced to reduce partial governmental departments administration fees beginning October 1, 2013, among which, the official fee of paper copies of trademark application will be reduced to RMB800 (around US$130) from RMB1000 (around US$170) per application.

The chairman of Beijing East IP Ltd., Dr. Lulin Gao, is re-elected as Honorary President of All China Patent Agent Association (ACPAA) at the 9th Congress of ACPAA on July 25th, 2013. Dr. Gao will be serving for the 8th term of office as the Honorary President after being elected as President of ACPAA at the 6th Congress.

On July 5, 2013, the Internet Society of China (“ISC”) held the fourth member conference and the first meeting of the fourth Council of ISC.

India’s Minster for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma today deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks at WIPO, bringing the total number of members of the international trademark system to 90.

Less than 2 percent of technology agreements result in formal dispute proceedings which are generally costly and time-consuming, said a survey issued by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Thursday.

According to the statistics released on February 21, SIPO granted 217,105 invention patents in 2012, up 26.1%. As of the end of 2012, Chinahad granted cumulatively 1.111 million invention patents, housed 435,151 valid invention patents from home with the invention patents per 10 thousand heads rising to 3.2.

U.S. President Obama signed into law H.R. 6621 on January 14, 2013, enacting a number of technical corrections to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act and title 35, United States Code.